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ArticleFrontiers in public health2021

The Determinants of the Low COVID-19 Transmission and Mortality Rates in Africa: A Cross-Country Analysis.

Yagai Bouba, Emmanuel Kagning Tsinda, Maxime Descartes Mbogning Fonkou, Gideon Sadikiel Mmbando, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Jude Dzevela Kong

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 5 countries.

Yagai BoubaChantal BIYA International Reference Center for Research on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Management (CIRCB), Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Emmanuel Kagning TsindaGraduate School of Medicine, University of Tohoku, Sendai, Japan.
Maxime Descartes Mbogning FonkouUFR IM2AG, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.
Gideon Sadikiel MmbandoGraduate School of Life Sciences, University of Tohoku, Sendai, Japan.
Nicola Luigi BragazziLaboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (LIAM), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Jude Dzevela KongAfrica-Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium (ACADIC), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Tohoku University · JPYork University · CAUniversité Grenoble Alpes · FRUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

COVID-19PandemicsAfricaHumansLife ExpectancySARS-CoV-2AfricaCOVID-19cross-country analysismortalitytransmission

Identifiers

PMID34746085
PMCPMC8568130
OpenAlexW3210179269

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